Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. Born in Wakefield, …

Barbara Hepworth (born January 10, 1903, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died May 20, 1975, St. Ives, Cornwall) was a sculptor whose works were among the earliest abstract sculptures …

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. She was at the forefront of multiple avant-garde art movements, with wide-ranging interests that infused …

Back in London, Hepworth was one of a group of avant-garde sculptors committed to exploring abstraction. Though her earliest works featured simplified, naturalistic forms, she increasingly …

Hepworth was a key figure among modern sculptors in responding to the physical characteristics of whichever material was chosen to work with in order to resolve appropriate forms for the …

Oct 15, 2025 · Hepworth was appointed CBE in 1958, then DBE in 1965, for her contributions to art. In her lifetime, she became the most celebrated British woman working in the male …

The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, edited by Alan Bowness, is published. Hepworth creates three important groups of prints between 1969 and 1971, culminating in The …

Of a middle-class family from the West Riding of Yorkshire, Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield on 10 January 1903; her father, Herbert Hepworth, would become County Surveyor …

British-born (1903-1975) sculptor Barbara Hepworth has been called one of the outstanding women artists of the twentieth century. Throughout her working life and until her death, she …

Jul 1, 2021 · Barbara Hepworth is one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century, with a career that spanned decades of tumultuous political and social change.